HOW DOES THE TYPE OF LIGHT AFFECT THE NUMBER OF LEAF STOMATA?
Plants have many parts. One of these parts is called the leaf, which is the organ responsible for making food and can range from only a few millimeters to more than 60 feet long. Leaves turn sunlight and carbon dioxide into food in a process called photosynthesis, serve as storage organs, and many help to provide specialized structures. One of these structures is called stomate, or leaf pore, and is critical to survival of the plant. Stomata are holes in the leaf cuticle, the waxy layer on the outside of leaves helping to waterproof them, that are surrounded by pairs of cells called guard cells. This hole in the leaf allows the leaf to exchange gases such as carbon dioxide needed for photosynthesis and oxygen, a waste product of respiration, as well as water in a process called transpiration. What is transpiration and how does it relate to these stomata?
